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Joss Whedon
American
Writer
Born:
Jun 23
,
1964
Love
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'
Joss Whedon
Funny
Father
Thought
Bit
TV
Because
None
American
Ashamed
Little
Little Bit
Works
Shows
My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.
Joss Whedon
Life
Teacher
Mom
My Life
Those
Television
Has-Been
Writer
Combining
Sort
Been
His
Goal
Dad
Two
Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
Joss Whedon
Me
Goals
Dance
Everything
Had
Sing
Always
Were
Goal
Lot
Wanted
Movies
Act
Paint
For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.
Joss Whedon
Me
Somebody
Telling
Almost
Story
Act
Showing
Gravy
You learn something every time you make a mistake.
Joss Whedon
Time
You
Mistake
Every
Every Time
Something
Make
Learn
The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of a show creator being anything other than a name people recognize on the screen was completely new.
Joss Whedon
People
Internet
Community
Other
Airing
Recognize
New
Name
Buffy
Than
Screen
Being
Anything
Forming
Notion
Show
Creator
Right
Started
I would like to have as much going on as other people do, but my problem is I get so attached to things, and there's my kids, and I need my sleep, and then there's being married - gotta check in on that, too.
Joss Whedon
People
Problem
Too
Other
Kids
Married
Would
Attached
Check
Like
Gotta
Get
Going
Being
Then
Much
Things
Need
Sleep
An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke, I'm going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I'm going to have someone give someone a kiss - it's just going to happen.
Joss Whedon
Kiss
Joke
Think
Worst
Someone
Give
Something
Peril
Make
Knows
Audience
Am
Up
Blow
Going
Just
Happen
Who
Shows
Right
Watches
I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.
Joss Whedon
Fear
Pathological
Confrontation
Working
'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.
Joss Whedon
Time
First
Sense
Honestly
Fine
Dazzling
Around
First Time
Sixth
Sixth Sense
Second
You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.
Joss Whedon
Love
Buy
You
Frame
Picasso
Because
Remember to always be yourself.
Joss Whedon
Yourself
Remember
Be Yourself
Always
Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.
Joss Whedon
Needs
You
Own
Every
Vampire
Vampires
Take
Want
Fiction
There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'
Joss Whedon
Time
People
Writing
Before
Think
Tell
About
Something
Through
Writer
Over
Come
Like
Until
Felt
Understand
Yarn
Real
Understood
Came
Just
Where
Want
Wanted
Story
Might
Then
Away
As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.
Joss Whedon
Time
First
Beginning
Way
Finish
Buffy
Concerned
First Time
Am
As Far As
Wanted
Story
Far
Episode
Start
Career
I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.
Joss Whedon
Me
Before
Older
Think
Everything
Worse
Brother
See
Pretty
Brothers
Had
Got
End
Than
Did
Anything
Much
Older Brother
Older Brothers
If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.
Joss Whedon
Time
You
Try
Sense
Else
Once
Classic
Give
Something
Something Else
Attention
Like
Doing
However
End
Up
Being
Children
Then
Much
Your
Full
Multitask
Things
Two
Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.
Joss Whedon
Matter
Isolation
Relate
Everything
Solitary
Superhero
Something
Write
Tends
Simpler
Because
Always
Off
End
Up
Wanting
Storyteller
Mean
Turn
Then
Team
Even
Start
I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'
Joss Whedon
Women
Idea
Understand
How
Off
Women Are
Inferior
Anyone
Whole
Why
Ever
Pulled
I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.
Joss Whedon
Met
Never
Weird
Well-Adjusted
Person
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
Joss Whedon
Writing
About
Empowerment
Ultimately
End
Up
Helplessness
I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.
Joss Whedon
Money
Job
Take
Never
Because
Wanted
Needed
What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.
Joss Whedon
Beautiful
You
Direction
Hike
Like
Hiking
Know
Terrain
Sure
Exhausting
Going
Which
Even
Challenging
Necessarily
Filmmaking
I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
Joss Whedon
Ego
Singing
Become
Kevin Costner
Giant
Postman
Costner
Soundtrack
Want
Kevin
I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
Joss Whedon
Angry
Atheist
Concept
Devotion
Am
Very
Fascinated
Hard-Line
I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.
Joss Whedon
Love
World
Better
Sex
Bad
Write
Like
Because
Very
Mean
Nothin
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